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Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory
The Kungarakany people, also spelt Koongurrukuñ , Kungarrakany , Kungarakan and other variants, are an
Aboriginal Australian people of the
Northern Territory . They were called the "Paperbark People " by European settlers.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands covered approximately 2,000 square miles (5,200 km2 ). They included the inland area north-east of
Mount Litchfield , around the mid-waters of the
Reynolds River and the headwaters of the
Adelaide River . Their north-eastern limits were close to
Rum Jungle and
Batchelor . Kungarakan traditional land encompasses Adelaide River, Batchelor, Rum Jungle,
Finniss River , Litchfield Park, and Berry Springs, including the Territory Wildlife Park.
Language
Alternative names
They were known to European settlers as the "Paperbark People".
[2]
Alternative names and spellings include:
Gunerakan
Kangarraga
Kangarranga
Warnunger
Ungnakan
Notable people
Notes
Citations
^ Dewar, Mickey.
"Alngindabu (1874–1961)" .
Australian Dictionary of Biography . Canberra: National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University .
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7 .
ISSN
1833-7538 .
OCLC
70677943 . Retrieved 30 April 2022 . This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, (Melbourne University Press), 1993
^ Hynes, Nicholas (26 April 2022).
"Aboriginal elder Kathy Mills remembered as formidable leader and brilliant storyteller" . ABC News .
Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 26 April 2022 .
^ Jenke, Tyler (6 March 2021).
"MRLN x RKM, Vika and Linda, and Midnight Oil Continue A Stellar WOMADelaide" .
Rolling Stone Australia . Retrieved 29 August 2021 .
^
"AFL's Marlon Motlop and Rulla Kelly-Mansell team up for a new musical project" (Audio) .
ABC Radio National . 7 July 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 .
^ Alexandra, Andrew.
"Tom Calma: A Biography" . Retrieved 21 July 2022 – via Academia.edu.
Sources
Basedow, Herbert (1907).
"Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia" .
Journal of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia . 31 : 1–62.
Foelsche, Paul (1895). "On the Manners, Customs, &c., of some Tribes of the Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia".
The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 24 : 190–198.
JSTOR
2842215 .
Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933). "Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary Paper".
Oceania . 4 (2): 156–175.
doi :
10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x .
JSTOR
40327457 .
Stretton, W. G. (1893).
"Customs, rites and superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of the Gulf of Carpentaria" (PDF) .
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Adelaide Branch) . 17 : 227–253. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018 .
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974).
"Kungarakan (NT)" . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names .
Australian National University .
ISBN
978-0-708-10741-6 .